Limit textlength in OE?

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Nicklas Lundgren	Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29:50 am Hi, I have a problem that I suppose a few others has hade before. I am using the article class to publish news. However, I would like to limit the size of the Intro xml-textfield to 200 characters. The article class has no property for max textlength. And I cant find any immediate way to customize the OE to do what I want. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? It is of course important that the user gets a message when the limit is reached. All ideas greatly appreciated! Kind regards, Nicklas Lundgren
Marco Zinn	Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:44:23 pm Hm... will be difficult... What do you want to count? The characters in the XML field (including the XML tags)? Or the "rendered" characters? Or the rendered HTML? I suggest, that you don't limit the field for now, but -if you want to make sure, that noone messes your site up with long intros- use a string operator to limit the intro DISPLAY ("shorten") Marco http://www.hyperroad-design.com
Nicklas Lundgren	Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:07:24 pm Hi all, Thanks Marco, for your reply. However, i digged into the code of the OE today, and have managed to add a small counter to the statusbar. I have made a new ini-file to the OE, maxlength.ini in which I define which parentnodes the restiction should apply to. Also I there state the textlength allowed, and wether it should apply to the "intro" or the "body" field. It works! I use textRanges in javascript to prevent the xml-fields from expanding. Regards, Nicklas Lundgren

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Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29:50 am

Hi,
I have a problem that I suppose a few others has hade before.

I am using the article class to publish news. However, I would like to limit the size of the Intro xml-textfield to 200 characters.

The article class has no property for max textlength. And I cant find any immediate way to customize the OE to do what I want.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? It is of course important that the user gets a message when the limit is reached.

All ideas greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Nicklas Lundgren

Marco Zinn

Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:44:23 pm

Hm... will be difficult...
What do you want to count? The characters in the XML field (including the XML tags)? Or the "rendered" characters? Or the rendered HTML?
I suggest, that you don't limit the field for now, but -if you want to make sure, that noone messes your site up with long intros- use a string operator to limit the intro DISPLAY ("shorten")

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Nicklas Lundgren

Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:07:24 pm

Hi all,
Thanks Marco, for your reply.

However, i digged into the code of the OE today, and have managed to add a small counter to the statusbar.

I have made a new ini-file to the OE, maxlength.ini in which I define which parentnodes the restiction should apply to. Also I there state the textlength allowed, and wether it should apply to the "intro" or the "body" field.

It works!

I use textRanges in javascript to prevent the xml-fields from expanding.

Regards,
Nicklas Lundgren

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 31 2025 04:29:23
Script start
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 04:29:23
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 04:29:23
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 04:29:23
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 04:29:23
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0150 sec
Peak memory usage	2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0053	588.1250	151.2109
Module start 'layout'	0.0053	0.0029	739.3359	36.6328
Module start 'content'	0.0082	0.0056	775.9688	90.1094
Module end 'content'	0.0138	0.0012	866.0781	33.9922
Script end	0.0150		900.0703

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0023	15.5744	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0011	7.2354	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	4.6349	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.0025	16.8556	3	0.0008
Looping result	0.0000	0.1062	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0009	6.1	1	0.0009
Template load	0.0007	4.7951	1	0.0007
Template processing	0.0002	1.2384	1	0.0002
Override
Cache load	0.0005	3.0651	1	0.0005
General
dbfile	0.0015	10.2133	8	0.0002
String conversion	0.0000	0.0539	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs